[support] Upgrade to Drupal 5?

[Ari Davidow]

Working from memory (we're in the middle of planning a similar upgrade),
this isn't necessarily very complicated.

1. Upgrade to the last 4.7 release--that's mostly security stuff and some
minor (any?) table changes. You need to do that in all cases, even if you
don't go on to 5.x (but you probably want 5.x soon, since 6.0 is imminent.)
2. Make sure that there are updates to all of the modules you need, or
modules to which you can migrate, to meet your needs.
3. Upgrade to the current 5.x. (Is there an "upgrade to 5.0" step? I don't
think so, but I could be wrong. You'll want to do this on a test/dev site
first, as some themes are likely to break, depending on what you have
customized how.

There seems to be some decent documentation on the drupal.org site. Look in
the "tutorials" page of the "handbook" section. Here's a useful Introduction
to Upgrading: http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction

ari
On 10/15/07, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a production website that runs on Drupal 4.7. Should I move it to
> Drupal 5.2?
>
> I'm concerned that migrating might be difficult, might be work, or might
> cause downtime for my users. On the other hand, I'm concerned about
> staying with an old software version that might become unsupported in
> the future, and that migration might be more difficult later.
>
> My Drupal 4.7 site has several modules added on and I figure that these
> might not all work in Drupal 5. My understanding is that backwards
> compatibility is not a development goal for Drupal. So perhaps the best
> way to "migrate" is to essentially re-do the website from scratch and
> then copy all the content from the 4.7 site.
>
> I'm generally happy with Drupal 4.7. Is there any page that briefly
> explains what's new and exciting in Drupal 5 that might make one want to
> move to it?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
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